We’ve been covering the last couple of weeks the interesting gap between the overall employment picture in Southern California, and that of early stage startups and high tech companies — where demand seems to be outstripping supply of talent. Frank Peters, of the Frank Peters Show, has a great segment on his podcast talking with [...]
For today’s interesting SoCal-related reading, Connie Loizos over at PEhub.com casts a wary eye at FitOrbit/Global Fitness Media’s Nike Desai — who has been making the funding rounds recently– and asks about his questionable past.
Why driving innovation in Southern California — and the rest of the nation — is important. I’ve seen, over the years, a certain provincialism and bias apparent in some folks in the technology blog world, who seem to think the only innovation comes from Silicon Valley. I’m not going to rehash the arguments, but, needless [...]
Jared Reitzen, founder of mobileStorm has a new way to show his dedication to his company: a tattoo of the company’s logo on his ankle.
Jason Nazar, CEO of Docstoc–and organizer of the Startups Uncensored series of events in Santa Monica for entrepreneurs–has a new project up his sleeve: giving away money (or help, or other assistance) to charities or other worthy causes for every day, the next 30 days. Jason says: I thought about doing something around my health/family [...]
Friday reading: a great essay by GRP’s Mark Suster on Why You Should Start a Company in Los Angeles (in Fast Company).
The Silicon Alley Insider has weighed in on its list of “50+ most valuable startups“, and suprisingly, they didn’t neglect Southern California. Facebook was tops, but local companies highlighted in the list: 4. NewEgg (est worth $3.2B) – City of Industry 10. Demand Media ($1.3B) – Santa Monica 16. Oversee.net ($1B) – Los Angeles 23. [...]
Some Southern California related links for Friday afternoon: VentureNet, Southern California’s Shark Tank (Hollywood Today) Topspin Media’s Ian Rogers on Why Letting iTunes Own Customers Is A Bad Idea (Wired) Neighborhood Goods Launches in LA (lalawag) Software Firms in Los Angeles? (Tony Karrer)
One thing is for sure: Jason Calacanis keeps things from getting boring in the high tech world. Jason does not mince words when he’s got a cause, and he’s got a new one: taking down the Keiretsu Forum, an angel group which–unlike most–charges fairly steep fees to startups looking to present to investors. Jason–calling it [...]
Anyone familiar with the Southern California high tech market is well aware of the great success that Oversee.net has had in the domain name market has had, becoming (without much fanfare) a $200M company and dominant in its field. It’s one of Southern California’s biggest, unheralded successes. The firm was bootstrapped by Lawrence Ng and [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
